THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ivyleaf

I'd never heard of it! but have now had a Google.

mardatha

I like the taste of it better than porridge oats but it's too much of a faff to bother with for long.

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

Pinhead oatmeal needs a good long soak, and a long slow cook.

It can join me shortly in the bubble bath, where I also plan to have a good long soak.

Just come in from playing with bows & arrows. First sesh in a long time and muscles are aching a bit. Very enjoyable, tho, and I have to keep my skills up, we might have to show the zombies cold steel at some point.

My arrows have target shooting points, but they're still over and inch of very pointy steel, you wouldn't want to get in the way of one.

ivyleaf

I'm glad you've been able to go to your archery again GQ I know how much you love it, and you haven't mentioned it lately so I guessed it had had to go by the board recently what with everything else that was going on.

jk0

Someone linked to this shocking text today on Zerohedge comments. I haven't finished reading yet, but it seems to be quite a revelation:

https://www.scribd.com/document/332002438/Silent-Weapons-for-Quiet-War

DigForVictory

In related news, Sainburys have been quite open about price increases for food in the coming year.

5% against what a savings plan is offering & suddenly my grocery & store cupboard shopping may be the shrewder investment.

Now to teach my offspring how to cook with dried pulses... (Fiendish picky mortals.)

pineapple

DigForVictory wrote: »

As I'll be driving three teenage boys up the M6, can anyone recommend good places to feed them near to if not on the motorway? Cheap hot bulk needed, 'cuisine' need not apply!

Have a look at this site.
I used to use it for arranging lunchtime assignations with my internet dates! :rotfl:
Handy for halfway meet ups (and a quick escape )
http://www.offmotorway.com/

DigForVictory

Brilliant website - promptly added to favourites on phone!

Swift escapes from internet dates eh? I've always found most hospitality staff to be very sweet about letting me out through fire escapes etc when the going has been tough. One even relocated "us" to another table so they could get my coat.

pineapple

DigForVictory wrote: »

Swift escapes from internet dates eh? I've always found most hospitality staff to be very sweet about letting me out through fire escapes etc when the going has been tough. One even relocated "us" to another table so they could get my coat.

Norty norty you!

GreyQueen

Gosh, I now have a mental image of pineapple and DigForVictory as leading rather exciting lives in motorway service stations. If I'm ever in one again, I shall pay closer attention to other people, in case I spot assginations.:rotfl:

I once had to flee from a mentally unwell person who was stalking me and kid bruv through a town centre by asking a B0dy Sh0p manager if we could exit her premises by the delivery door. She'd noticed our 'stalker' hanging around outside and thought she was with us.

Well she was, gawd bless her, but only because she'd attached herself to us and was behaving very strangely.

We were in a strange town but we legged it down a service lane from the back door and offski'd to the car park and sped off. That poor lady was later sectioned, according to the snoozepaper, when her odd behavour with strangers in the shopping streets got even odder than we were experiencing.

Always worth remembering that most places don't take goods in through the front door and that there will be a service door/ staff entrance, which will sometimes be on another street or on a back lane, in case you need to ask to use them.